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The Four World Centres Camp in a Box

Welcome to the Four World Centres Camp-in-a-Box.

This Camp-in-a-Box was devised by the International Committee of Fraser Skies Area in British Columbia to provide an opportunity to enjoy the many features of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) Four World Centres while at camp.

Inthis camp package, you will find the program outline and a wide variety of activities, games and crafts to choose from.As well, there are menu and recipe suggestions, a campfire, Guides’ Own and a kit list. Build your camp to suit the season, building or campsite, number of girls and available time. Pick those activities that work the best for you and your girls and remember to be flexible.Feel free to adapt this package to have fun learning about global issues that affect all of us.

Rememberto use the most current Safe Guide forms, available from the website. Your local camping and programadvisers and your local trainers are there to help you with planning any part of your camp or if you have any questions or concerns.

There is an interactive crest order form available on the BC web site: bc-girlguides.org.On the home page click on Resources (left hand side): the crests are $1.00 each for units in BC.

An evaluation form has been included for you to complete after your camp and the BC International Committee would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Your suggestions and comments are very useful in the creation of future camp packages. We love receiving pictures, so please send some of those along too!

The most important thing is flexibility and adapting this package to work for your camp.Please use your wonderful creativity as required!

Most of all have fun at camp!

Fraser Skies and BC International Committee

Created 2014

Four World Centres Camp-in-a-Box

CONTENTS

Welcomepage 1

Contents2

Program Guideline3

Program Activities and Details5

Recipes 13

Graces 17

Campfires20

Guides’ Own/Reflections24

Kit List27

Evaluation Form28

PROGRAM GUIDELINE

FRIDAY EVENING

6:00 Arrive at camp – Bag Supper from home

Set up Camp

Go over camp boundaries, rules and fire drill, patrol duties

Divide girls into patrols if you did not do this before camp

Make name tags

Friday night campfire – see details later

Mug Up – Mexican Pico de Gallo with tortilla chips from Mexico, served with hot chocolate

10:00Bedtime

SATURDAY

7:30 Breakfast – Delhi Omelette with Toast, Fresh Fruit Tray, and Yoghurt Dip

Patrol Duties

9:00Round Robin Activities – from the World Centres – Three activities to rotate through;

Mexican Sombrero Craft and Game, Mehndi from India, and Hallihallo from Switzerland.

10:30Snack on the run – fruit leather or GORP – Hiking food from Switzerland with Juice or water

12:00Lunch

Patrol Duties

1:30 Quiet Time

2:00Hike with snack – see hiking suggestions with an international theme

3:30 Afternoon activity – English High Tea Party –with fancy dress, hats, gloves, etc. See food selections section of the plan

4:15 Free Time

5:00Dinner Prep

Dinner – Mexican Tortilla Soup with Tortilla Chips, Vegetable Tray, dessert?

Patrol Duties

7:00Sangam Friendship Bracelets Project – a Service Project

8:00Night Game – Kho Kho from India – a tag game

Mug Up – Swiss Fondue (Cheese with bread chunks or Chocolate with fruit chunks), with hot apple juice

Campfire

10:00Bedtime

SUNDAY

7:30Breakfast – Full English Breakfast – Fried Eggs, Toast with jam, Back Bacon, Fried Tomatoes, Tea, Orange juice (no recipes supplied)

Patrol Duties

Girls pack up gear

10:00Guide’s Own

10:30Take down tents

Patrol Duties

Camp Site Cleanup

Closing—present crests and take a group photo!

12:00 Parent Pick Up

Image courtesy of computerclipart.comPROGRAM ACTIVITIES and DETAILS

Choose your activities to suit the time of year, site, number of Guides and your preferences.

Suggestions for Patrol Names:

(Taken from the 4 World Centres) Our Cabana, Our Chalet, PAX Lodge, Sangam

Round Robin stations (numbers of participants will help decide how many stations you need)

Station 1: Mexican Sombrero Craft and Game

This craft takes a bit of help from an adult, but has a great end result. It's great fun for dress up and would go well with the game “Stealing the Sombrero”.

Materials:

3 or 4 sheets of newspaper
EITHER:
two sheets of solid colored gift wrap (same size as the newspaper)
OR
paint
masking tape
scissors,
single hole punch
wool or string

Instructions:

stack the sheets of newspaper
if using gift wrap, put the wrap on top and bottom of the newspaper with the colored sides out
Put the newspaper over the child's head (if doing this with a few children, have the child with the biggest head be the model for all the hats).
Wrap masking tape around the crown 2 or 3 times.
trim the brim into a circle.
roll the brim up and apply masking tape to hold
if using paint, paint the hat at this point -- a dark color like black is best as it covers the newsprint
Punch holes all around the brim of the hat
thread wool or string around to decorate the brim
Punch holes on either side of the hat crown. Wrap a piece of string or wool around the crown to make it fancy (sort of like a hat band) -- even ribbon would work. Put the ends of the wool through the holes on either side of the hat crown and tie loosely under the chin

Game: STEALING THE SOMBRERO (combine with the Mexican Sombrero craft)

Perhaps the most popular traditional Mexican game for younger children is known as “Stealing the Sombrero”. To play this Mexican game, first each child must have a sombrero. You can make the sombreros easily out of paper if needed. Attach a sombrero to each child's back. When the Mexican music starts, each child must try to steal another child's sombrero without losing their own. Start and stop the music to signal the beginning and ending of each round. Children who lose their sombreros must sit out on the next rounds, until the last two children are left who are declared the winners.

You might also want to try to dance the Mexican hat dance – it will require the girls gathering in a circle, then playing a youtube rendering of the Mexican Hat Dance song:

works well.

To see the dance in action, try (with the girls circling left and right at the times when the line moves):

Station 2: Mendhi from India

If girls are permitted, henna paste in a tube can be purchased from produce stores (e.g., Fruiticana) in areas like Surrey, where there many people of South Asian heritage. The henna paste is inexpensive (a $3 to $4 tube will cover 8 to 10 girls), but it takes about 10 days to wear off. The girls can be encouraged to make intricate designs.

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Mendhi Pins

This is a good idea for a girl who might not be permitted to have Mendhi designs drawn on her hand(s).
Make SWAPs from India with traditional mendhi designs.

You Need:

Coiless Safety Pins - 1-3/4" Gold
Foamie Tan Hands (bought commercially)
Pearl Beads
3/8" Gold Jingle Bells
Permanent Markers
(Optional) SWAP Tags

Instructions:

Use a permanent marker to draw mendhi designs on hands. Colour in the fingernails. Open up a coiless pin. You'll need to bend it open about 60° to get the pearl beads around the coil. Poke through the hand. String pearls and a bell onto the hand. Don't forget to add a tag for swapping if you are making it for swapping.

Station 3: Hallihallo(Hal-li Hah-lo)– a game from Switzerland

Ages: 9-12 Supplies: ball or beanbag

Players: 10 or more; group-and-one; row Activity: pasttime; alertness; catching;

throwing

Place: home; schoolroom, camp

Appeal: suspense

Play: The players sit in a row and one, the leader, stands in front of the group with a ball in his or her hands. The leader says, "It is an animal, starting with B" (buffalo perhaps) and throws the ball to the first player sitting in the row. The player replies by trying to guess the name of the animal starting with "B" and throws the ball back.

-If the guess is right, he or she then becomes the leader and stands in front of the group. The first leader sits at the end of the row.

-If the player does not know the answer, he or she throws the ball back to the leader and the play continues to the second player in the row. If at the end of the row no player has guessed the name of the animal, the leader this time has to say the second letter of the animal, as "Bu" and so on. The leader may ask anything such as the name of a town, country, river, mountain, car, etc. A player should not be allowed too long a time to think, but should throw the ball back rather quickly.

Hike

Plan for a 1.5 hour hike.Be sure to take water bottles and a snack along with you.Here are several ideas to make the hike more interesting for the girls:

WAGGGS Country Hike – Give each patrol the name of a country that is a member of WAGGGS. They must find a particular number (e.g., 10 to 20) of natural objects beginning with the first letter of the name of that country (e.g., Switzerland – they could find a slug), or challenge them to find objects for every letter of the name of the country (e.g., E for an Eagle, N for Nettles, G for Grass, etc. to spell out England)

Flag Hike – Using the Provincial Flag Collection (or other collection of small international flags), each patrol is given 3 flags and while on the hike tries to find as many things that match their flag colours as possible.

Saturday Afternoon English High Tea

Background: Tea Cups Craft

Another iconic thing about England is tea. English people have a great love for afternoon tea and tea parties. Parents can purchase some simple white tea cups, and allow their children to decorate the tea cups themselves. This can be done using paint or markers, depending on the material the cups are made out of. While the children are decorating the tea cups, parents can explain to them the tradition of tea in England and its importance to English culture.
Read more: English Craft Ideas | eHow.com

Menu for English High Tea:

Tea (served in tea cups as above)

Cucumber (with mayonnaise and/or cream cheese) or egg salad sandwiches with the crusts cut off

Scones (recipe below)

English Shortbread (recipe below)

Simple Scones – makes 8 Scones

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

1/3 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

8 tablespoons unsalted butter, frozen

½ c. raisins (or dried currants)

½ c. sour cream

1 large eggADVERTISE WITH US

Directions

Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a medium bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Grate butter into flour mixture on the large holes of a box grater; use your fingers to work in butter (mixture should resemble coarse meal), then stir in raisins.
In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and egg until smooth.
Using a fork, stir sour cream mixture into flour mixture until large dough clumps form. Use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. (The dough will be sticky in places, and there may not seem to be enough liquid at first, but as you press, the dough will come together.)
Place on a lightly floured surface and pat into a 7- to 8-inch circle about 3/4-inch thick. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp. of sugar. Use a sharp knife to cut into 8 triangles; place on a cookie sheet (preferably lined with parchment paper), about 1 inch apart. Bake until golden, about 15 to 17 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and serve warm or at room temperature.

Footnotes for Scones Recipe

Cranberry-Orange Scones
Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding a generous teaspoon of finely grated orange rind (zest) to the dry ingredients and substituting dried cranberries for the raisins.
Lemon-Blueberry Scones
Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding a generous teaspoon of finely grated lemon rind (zest) to the dry ingredients and substituting dried blueberries for the raisins.
Cherry-Almond Scones
Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding 1/2 tsp. almond extract to the sour cream mixture and substituting dried cherries for the raisins.

From:

Classic Shortbread

1 cup butter (room temperature)

½ cup powdered sugar

1 tsp Vanilla extract

½ c Rice flour

1 ½ to 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour

In a large bowl, cream butter using wooden spoon. Gradually add sugar and vanilla, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually work in rice flour and all purpose flour until mixture becomes too stiff to work with a spoon. Turn onto floured board and knead lightly, drawing in flour until dough begins to crack. Form into a ball and refrigerate 30 minutes. Roll dough on lightly floured surface to ¼ inch thickness. Cut into rectangles or with cookie cutters. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 300 F for 15-18 minutes for 2 inch cookies or until slightly golden. Let cool 5 min before removing to cooling rack. Let cool thoroughly before storing in tins. Makes 40 - 2 inch cookies.

(This recipe was supplied by a committee member.)

Saturday Evening Activity1 Service Project: Friendship Bracelets for Sangam

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts - Friendship Bracelet Project
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from around the world are invited to make friendship bracelets which will be sold at Sangam. This will help Sangam to continue supporting its projects, like Children's Camp, and supporting our community partners. This will also allow visitors, and particularly local guides and scouts, to buy something that celebrates the world of WAGGGS and the international friendship we share.

How can I find out how to make a Friendship Bracelet?

Try:

(has video demonstrations)

(these are just a few, check them out or just Google “how to make a friendship bracelet?”)

Supplies needed?

The only supplies needed are embroidery thread (and possibly beads) in a variety of colours which may be purchased at a dollar or craft store.

Can I use beads in my bracelet?

Yes, you can use any material you like – as long as it makes a friendship bracelet!

Do I have to make my bracelet in a specific colour?

You can make your bracelet/s in any colour you choose. We’ll be pleased and excited to receive them in all colours of the rainbow. However, we would like to try to increase awareness of WAGGGS’ Global Advocacy Campaign to Stop the Violence, so if you’d like to make bracelets in the red and green colours of the campaign, then we’d love that too.

Send your completed friendship bracelets to:

Sangam World Centre

c/o Friendship Project

Alandi Road

Yerwada

Pune 411 006

INDIA

Saturday Evening Activity 2 – Kho Kho (A tag game from India)

Kho Kho

Kho Kho is an Indian and Pakistani sport played by teams of twelve players who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team, only 9 players of the team enter the field.[1] It is one of the two most popular traditional tag games of South Asia, the other being Kabbadi.[2]

Rules

Each team consists of 12 players, but only 9 players take the field for a contest.[3]
A match consists of two innings. An innings consists of chasing and running turns of 9 minutes each.
Then, 1 team sits/kneels in the middle of the court, in a row, with adjacent members facing opposite directions.
The chasers end in the shortest time possible.
The team that takes the shortest time to tag all the opponents in the field, wins.

Field

Schematic representation of a Kho-kho pitch (field). White lines are the markers, black circles are wooden poles (~ 4 feet tall), yellow arrows are chasing team members (facing as the arrow-heads are), blue smiley faces are the defenders (arrive in batches of 3).
A Kho-Kho playground(or pitch) is rectangular.[4] It is 29 meters in length and 16 meters in width. There are two rectangles at the end. One side of the rectangle is 16 meter and the other side is 2.75 meters. In the middle of these two rectangles, there are two wooden poles. The central lane is 907.50 cm long and 30 cm X 30 cm on the lane. There are eight cross lanes which lie across the small squares and each of it is 500 cm in length and 70 cm in breadth, at right angles to the central lane and divided equally into two parts of 7.30 cm each by central lane. At the end of central lane, two posts are fixed. They are 120 cm above the ground and their circumference is not less than 30 cm and not more than 40 cm. The post is made of wooden poles which are smooth all over. The posts are fixed firmly in the free zone tangent to the post-line at a height between 120 to 125 cm.

Equipment